Khaled > Khaled's Quotes

“Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.”
― Johannes Sebastian Bach

“Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.”
― Emil Cioran

“Art is dead, but the student is necrophiliac.”
― Internationale situationniste, On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, and a Modest Proposal for Its Remedy

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

“Like billowing clouds,
Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
― Hildegard von Bingen

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
― Louis Armstrong

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“وقد فتشتُ عن أصحاب دين * لهم نُسْك وليس لهم رياء..
فألفيتُ البهائم لا عقول * تقيم لها الدليل ولا ضياء..
وإخوان الفطانة في اختيال * كأنهمُ لقوم أنبياء..
فأما هؤلاء فأهل مكر * وأما الأولون فأغبياء..
فإن كان التُّقَى بَلَها وعِيّا * فأعيار المذلة أتقياء..”
― أبو العلاء المعري, اللزوميات

“Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

“Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique.”
― Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play

“The entire Ethics is a voyage in immanence; but immanence is the unconscious itself, and the conquest of the unconscious. Ethical joy is the correlate of speculative affirmation.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born